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John Cerminaro, the current principal horn of the Seattle Symphony, is the world's all time best horn player, period. At age 63, he has outstripped all his mentors in terms of longevity and he actually has gotten better every single year. Formerly, he was principal horn for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and principal horn at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, before arriving in Seattle. His greatest CD is probably "A Life of Music" but he has many CDs out there. Nobody does difficult horn work like Mr. Cerminaro. See a review by New York Times critic, Daniel Wakin, on Screamers, Difficult Works for the Horn. Yes, there are others -- Dennis Brain for sure. Wikipedia has a nice list under French Horn, but it is outdated in terms of contemporaries.

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